Paul Pillar
Georgetown University
Washington, DC/USA
Dr. Pillar is a Visiting Professor and member of the core faculty of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community, in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. Earlier, he served in a variety of analytical and managerial positions, including as chief of analytic units at the CIA, covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. Dr. Pillar also served in the National Intelligence Council as one of the original members of its Analytic Group. He has been Executive Assistant to the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence and Executive Assistant to Director of Central Intelligence William Webster. He has headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and from 1997 to 1999 was deputy chief of the Center. He was a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1999-2000.
Dr. Pillar received an A.B. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and served on active duty from 1971 to 1973, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. He is the author of Negotiating Peace and Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Books
- Terrorism and US Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
- Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Selected Publications
- "Jihadist Terrorism: The State of the Threat," Second IRRI Conference on International Terrorism, Royal Institute for International Relations, February 13, 2006.
- "Perceptions of Terrorism: Continuity and Change," in Law vs. War: Competing Approaches to Fighting Terrorism, Conference Report, Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, July 2005.
- "Counterterrorism after Al Qaeda," The Washington Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 101-113.
Other
- "Sifting Through Mohammed's Confession to Plots," NPR "All Things Considered" Broadcast, March 15, 2007.